South Africa

Two Trumpy Lessons: Digital Echo Chambers and Political Tribalism

An Easter Weekend reckoning with polarised politics viscerally taught me two things

Nov 15, 2024 •

Wessel van Rensburg

What the DA should be telling the people of South Africa

The speech that Steenhuizen should make

Jun 7, 2024 •

Wessel van Rensburg

It's crunch time for the ANC - and South Africa

On the 2024 South African election

Jun 2, 2024 •

Wessel van Rensburg

Adam Tooze on the schizophrenic South African experience

"the fear, that haunts, South African society — of total breakdown is, is traumatic..."

Apr 12, 2023 •

Wessel van Rensburg

Countries can not die, they stumble on

But their citizens can

Jan 3, 2023 •

Wessel van Rensburg

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